CraigBookwyrm 📖📚

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Girl dad, husband, cat dad (He/Him) Avid reader of mostly SFFH Humanist Vote Green 💚 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ rights are human rights 🚫Gen AI All thoughts are my own and subject to change, based on reasoned arguments and new evidence.

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The opening trilogy of The Hybrid Helix will be free on Amazon from October 20-24 (image just shows covers for the three books, and says free on those dates). If you don't LOVE them I'll personally give you TWICE your money back.

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The debate has flared up again over whether chatbots are conscious. Which brings to mind this section of dialogue in my most recent book, This Machine Kills Billionaires (2026):

Excerpt reads as follows: “Sergey Bookman says that’s speciesist. He’s been telling everyone who’ll listen which is everyone—that you’re alive.” “Well he would say that, wouldn’t he?” “Hmm. Why?” “Who benefits from insisting that the toaster is sentient, Izzy? Why, the man with the toaster factory.” Huldo gestured at the space around them, the vista. “Even if I were a new form of life, Sergey Bookman would not care for me. Bookman does not care for any form of life, including human. His concerns are all instrumental.”
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Few humanist authors are as well known as Salman Rushdie, who in 1989 was sentenced to death by a fatwa issued by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini over his novel The Satanic Verses, and in 2022 was stabbed on stage at a lecture in New York. He is our patron, and one of our heroes. #Humanistbookshelf

‘Nobody has the right to not be offended...If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people. I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.’
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